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Willie Boy's Back In Town

from Hit The Rhythm by The Floorboard Family

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I have always loved "story songs" - songs I was brought up on like "Big John", "Deck of Cards", "Tangled Up In Blue" "The Weight" etc
So this song came about during a period

lyrics

Willy Boy’s Back in Town

Way down south in Georgia late one Friday night
Me and that young Willy Boy went down by the crossroads light
He took me up into Rasper’s barn and Willy Boy held me tight
Made me feel like a woman all thro’ the night

Chorus

Whoo –Oooh go down Joe, Willy Boy’s back in town
Take me ooh so easy
‘Cos one thin dime don’t get you down the line
Whoo – Oooh One thin dime don’t get you down the line

Way down south in Georgia, Joe heard from a friend
His little darlin’ baby had been dancin’ all night long
He heard they’d gone up into the night and never did they return
So Joe knew what he had to do and what he didn’t wanna’ learn

Way down south in Georgia the sun was in the sky
Willie woke up with big Joe’s gun stuck right between his eyes
He pushed Willie up against the wall I thought he was dead and gone
So I kicked Joe you know where a case of hit and run

Way down south in Georgia late that very day
That wild young Willie Boy he was takin’ me all the way
All the way down to New Orleans where we would soon be wed
I’ll never need me another man big Willie’s the best I’ve had

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from Hit The Rhythm, released May 1, 2014

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